Jared Genser

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, LLC[1] and Founder of Freedom Now, an independent non-governmental organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide.[2] In addition, he is an Associate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and a columnist for The Diplomat,[3] the premier international affairs magazine focused on the Asia-Pacific. He has been referred to in the media as "The Extractor" – a leading human-rights lawyer on behalf of prisoners of conscience and the arbitrarily detained.[4] He served as international counsel to Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her latter five years under house arrest. And he currently represents 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo. Previously, he was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper[5] and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, the global strategy consulting firm.[1] In 2013, he received the American Bar Association's International Human Rights Award.[6] He was previously named by the National Law Journal as one of "40 Under 40: Washington's Rising Stars." [7]

Early life and education

Genser was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in suburban Maryland. Genser received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1995. He subsequently earned a Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was an Alumni Public Service Fellow and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He was also a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[8][9][10]

Career

Genser began his career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.[1] He later joined the government affairs practice of the global law firm DLA Piper, where he was elected a partner.[11] In 2011, he left DLA Piper to found Perseus Strategies, a human-rights law firm.[5] Genser has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center[12] as well as the University of Michigan Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School.[1] He was a 2006-2007 Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy.[13] His pro bono clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.[1] In June 2014 it was announced he would partner with the PR firm Levick in regard to "the international and local media narrative" surrounding the Nigerian government's efforts on the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping.[14]

Books

Genser is the author of The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice.[15] He was also a co-editor with Canadian Member of Parliament Irwin Cotler for The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time[16] and with former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Bruno Stagno Ugarte for The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights.[17]

Genser has published more than 70 op-eds on human-rights topics in major newspapers around the world including The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Chosun Ilbo (Seoul), Far Eastern Economic Review, The Huffington Post,[18] The Independent (UK), International Herald Tribune,[19] The Jakarta Post, Los Angeles Times,[20] South China Morning Post,[21] The Sydney Morning Herald,[22] The Nation (Thailand), The Star (South Africa), The Times (UK), The Wall Street Journal,[23] and The Washington Post.[24]

Other activities

Genser is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum from 2008-2013. In 2011, he was selected among the Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation.[25]

Genser is a board member of Ennaid Therapeutics,[26] a biotechnology company. He is also an advisory committee member of New Perimeter, DLA Piper's affiliated non-governmental organization that works on major human-rights and humanitarian projects worldwide.[27]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Team at Perseus Strategies
  2. ↑ Board of Directors at Freedom Now
  3. ↑ Example: Jared Genser (23 September 2015). "The Obama-Xi State Visit: Any Room for Human Rights?" The Diplomat. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Richard Aedy (27 June 2013). Jared Genser, Human Rights Defender (audio). ABC Radio (Australia). Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  5. 1 2 McDonough, Molly (5 July 2011). “Partner Leaves DLA to Launch Firm Focused on International Human Rights Issues”. ABA Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  6. ↑ American Bar Association (6 August 2013). “Lawyer Jared Genser to receive International Human Rights Award from American Bar Association”. ABA News. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  7. ↑ National Law Journal (13 July 2009). “40 Under 40”. The National Law Journal. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  8. ↑ http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/about-us/center-associates#jgenser
  9. ↑ http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/access/jmwa_2008.html
  10. ↑ http://www.hrnk.org/about/advisory-council.php
  11. ↑ DLA Piper (12 January 2012). "DLA Piper announces partnership promotions for 2009.". Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  12. ↑ Our Faculty at Georgetown Law
  13. ↑ National Endowment for Democracy (1 November 2006)."NED Welcomes Fall 2006 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows". Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  14. ↑ Wilson, Megan R (2014-06-26). "Nigeria hires PR for Boko Haram fallout". TheHill. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
  15. ↑ Genser, Jared (2014). The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  16. ↑ Genser, Jared; Cotler, Irwin (2012). The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0199797769.
  17. ↑ Genser, Jared; Ugarte, Bruno Stagno (2013). The United Nations Security Council in the Age of Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107040076.
  18. ↑ Examples:
  19. ↑ Irwin Cotler; Jared Genser (28 February 2011). “Libya and the Responsibility to Protect”. International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2013.]
  20. ↑ Desmond M. Tutu; Jared Genser (3 June 2013). “Stand up for Liu Xiaobo”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  21. ↑ Jerome A. Cohen; Jared Genser (15 August 2013). “Harmful Effects: The Torture and Detention of Gao Zhisheng”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  22. ↑ Jared Genser (25 June 2013). “More Clout Needed to End North Korea’s Repression”. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  23. ↑ Examples:
  24. ↑ Examples: Jared Genser (24 April 2015). "Preventing Atrocities Now - And in the Future." Washington Post. Retrieved 22 January 2016. Jared Genser (21 January 2013). “Ignoring North Korea’s Gulags: A UN Human Rights Council Inquiry is the First Step”. The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  25. ↑ "Young Leaders". French-American Foundation. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  26. ↑ Our Team at Ennaid Therapeutics
  27. ↑ Advisory Board at New Perimeter
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